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John Timpson reports from Bournemouth on the opening of this year's
Liberaf Party Conference. In London Brian Redhead
0.45* Prayer for the Day with CANON DAVID STANCLIFFE
6.55, 7.55 Weather forecast
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25*, 8.25' Sport
7 30 8 30 News headlines
7.45' Thought for the Day

Contributors

Unknown:
John Timpson
Unknown:
Canon David Stancliffe
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell

Today Tuesday Call turns Its attention to student life and student problems and offers information and advice on how to get the best out of college, both academically and socially. Put your questions to
Martin Blakey , Welfare Officer at Leeds University
Students' Union, and Sally-Louise Sharpe. a research student at London's Imperial College
In the Chair Judith Chalmers
Produced by the Woman's Hour unit
Lines open from 8.0 am

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Blakey
Unknown:
Sally-Louise Sharpe.
Unknown:
Judith Chalmers

Introduced by Derek Jones
Why is catmint so attractive to cats? Is it the feline equivalent of glue sniffing?
The team scents out the answers to your Wildlife Questions.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sat 3.5 pm) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Derek Jones
Producer:
John Harrison

Nigel Rees Invites Peter Jones Irma Kurtz
Julian Mitchell Gay Search to share their favourite quotations and identify some others.
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer ALAN NIXON
12.55 Weather: travel: programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
Irma Kurtz
Unknown:
Julian Mitchell
Read By:
Ronald Fletcher
Producer:
Alan Nixon

Introduced by Toni Arthur Including
Cancer Relief:
ANDREA ADAMS talks to some cancer sufferers and to those who care for them.
Pick of the Paperback): JUNE KNOX-MAWER and SEBASTIAN FAULKES make their choice.
At Freddie's (6) long wave only

Contributors

Introduced By:
Toni Arthur
Talks:
Andrea Adams

Alun Jones was brought up in a conventional
Welsh non-Conformist home in Cardiff. He is now a Carthusian monk. living a life of the strictest discipline In a small, obscure French monastery near Ceyzerlat, in the Aln region of eastern France. In this rare contact with the outside world, Alun traces his spiritual journey in conversation with his brother. Huw Jones.
Producer ELWYN JONES
BBC Wales

Contributors

Unknown:
Alun Jones
Unknown:
Huw Jones.
Producer:
Elwyn Jones

Young doctors fresh from medical school may be faced with telling somebody he has cancer, or that a close relative is dying. Yet formal medical training offers few opportunities to gain experience of such difficulttasks.GeoffWatts reports from the University of Manchester, where actors and video tapes are being used to introduce students to the consulting room, and examines the implications of this innovation in medical education.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

Contributors

Producer:
Geoff Deehan

Ma)or issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. Today, a report by Peter Oppenhelmer. Producer PAUL CAMPBELL Editor DAVID TAYLOR BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Oppenhelmer.
Producer:
Paul Campbell
Editor:
David Taylor

Written and presented by Hugh Douglas
Walter Scott died on 21 September 1832. With the publicationof
Waverley in 1814, he virtually invented the historical novel and his lyric poems helped to bring about the Scottish tourist industry. He was descended from Border families and made his home in the Borders at Abbotsford where this programme was recorded. Walter Scott TOM FLEMING
Taking part:
ERIC ANDERSON , JENNI CALDER , IAN CAMPBELL , DAVID DAICHES and PATRICIA MAXWELL-SCOTT
Clarsach played by SAVOURNA STEVENSON
Researcher KEETA CAMPBELL Producer ALEC REID
(The full binaural effect o/ thts programme can be achieved by listening through stereo headphones)

Contributors

Presented By:
Hugh Douglas
Presented By:
Walter Scott
Unknown:
Tom Fleming
Unknown:
Eric Anderson
Unknown:
Jenni Calder
Unknown:
Ian Campbell
Unknown:
David Daiches
Unknown:
Patricia Maxwell-Scott
Played By:
Savourna Stevenson
Unknown:
Keeta Campbell
Producer:
Alec Reid
Mrs Hogg.:
Eilken McCallum
Mrs Scott:
Gwyneth Guthrie
Sophia:
Cerda Stevenson
Purdie:
Robert Trotter
Hogg:
John Shedden

What Help for Housewivest KEVIN MULIIERN reports on the extent to which blind women are considered eligible for the housewives' non-contributory Invalidity pension.
Introduced by Peter White
Producer THENA HESHEL Listeners can phone in queries and comments relating to the programme on [number removed], 8.30-10.0 pm

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter White

Paul Allen talks to two of the judges of this year's Booker McConnell Prize for literature about the short-list announced today and visits the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich which is exhibiting the work of Humphry Repton. landscape gardener,
1752-1818.
Producer JOHN POWELL

Contributors

Talks:
Paul Allen
Unknown:
Booker McConnell
Unknown:
Humphry Repton.
Producer:
John Powell

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